i miss you quotes and sayings

Most of us, I suppose, are a little nervous of the sea. No matter what its smiles may be, we doubt its friendship. ~H.M. Tomlinson



Whatever you may be sure of, be sure of this: That you are dreadfully like other people. ~James Russell Lowell, "Democracy Address," Birmingham, England, 6 October 1884



One moment of patience may ward off great disaster. One moment of impatience may ruin a whole life. ~Chinese Proverb



Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification. ~Martin H. Fischer



Why do children want to grow up? Because they experience their lives as constrained by immaturity and perceive adulthood as a condition of greater freedom and opportunity. But what is there today, in America, that very poor and very rich adolescents want to do but cannot do? Not much: they can "do" drugs, "have" sex, "make" babies, and "get" money (from their parents, crime, or the State). For such adolescents, adulthood becomes synonymous with responsibility rather than liberty. Is it any surprise that they remain adolescents? ~Thomas Szasz



My doctor is nice; every time I see him, I'm ashamed of what I think of doctors in general. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966



The sun is the epitome of benevolence - it is lifegiving and warmthgiving and happinessgiving, and to it we owe our thanksgiving. ~Jessi Lane Adams



If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay home. ~James Michener



Is a civilization naturally backward because it is different? Outside of cannibalism, which can be matched in this country, at least, by lynching, there is no vice and no degradation in native African customs which can begin to touch the horrors thrust upon them by white masters. Drunkenness, terrible diseases, immorality, all these things have been gifts of European civilization. ~W.E.B. DuBois



I've got a theory that if you give 100 percent all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end. ~Larry Bird



There are sufferings that have lost their memory and do not remember why they are suffering. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin



They say that age is all in your mind. The trick is keeping it from creeping down into your body. ~Author Unknown



What this planet needs is more mistletoe and less missile-talk. ~Author Unknown



Why do we pay for psychotherapy when massages cost half as much? ~Jason Love



Men of lean habit of body are commonly a long time healthy, having good appetites and strong stomachs for digestion. ~Tobias Venner



Between sisters, often, the child's cry never dies down. "Never leave me," it says; "do not abandon me." ~Louise Bernikow



With neurotics, it's always "some assembly required." ~Terri Guillemets



The idle man does not know what it is to enjoy rest, for he has not earned it. ~John Lubbock



There is nothing like walking to get the feel of a country. A fine landscape is like a piece of music; it must be taken at the right tempo. Even a bicycle goes too fast. ~Paul Scott Mowrer, The House of Europe



Vacuums don't clean houses. People clean houses. ~Everybody Loves Raymond, "Humm Vac," written by Lew Schneider, original airdate 19 March 2001, spoken by the character Marie Barone